I lived in a Bad Kissingen, Germany in the early 1970s. There was a castle in the town. It was run-down, maybe having been bombed in some long ago war.
I went there once for a picnic inside the castle walls. We played frisbee. Then, in a bit, the frisbee sailed out one of the windows and we had to go out and chase it down the hill.
Thank you for bringing back that memory with your wonderful photos!
Annie

There are many signals at (the often very beautiful) buildings such as castles – both good and bad signals – the danish right-wing nationalists work on to make Denmark turn into such a castle with fear as moat – that’s bad – but the castles are great buildings, my favorite is “Schloß Gottorf” (Schleswig) perhaps the reason is that I used a bigger part of the childhood playing in the park with my friends… ;-)

yes one of my favorite philosophers, Ernst Bloch: “The Principle Of Hope” – he said: now we do not need any castles no more – destroy them all! On the other hand, one of my most viewed (115,000) photos is the Eltz Castle:

thanks, ideflex, your comment shows, that I didn’t fail describing the efforts of the architects – I had some discussions with some of them – they won with this project several prizes for architecture now in Germany – even a special stamp was presented by the post …
greetings by Frizz, Berlin